It’s the stupidest solution, but I hadn’t thought of it before.
I had seen that the Better Gmail extension had this feature of making Gmail always run over HTTPS, but it also came with so much other stuff that I found it to be just too bloated, and kept wishing for a simpler solution (meanwhile exposing my privacy to all those sniffers out there — oh the danger!).
Of course, I could always replace “http” with “https” on the address bar, but it’s a pain doing that every time. If only I could set it to be always like that…
Wait a second: I always start Gmail as my home page. Always use Alt+Home when I want to go to it. Yes, people, I had this brilliant idea: why not just put the address with “HTTPS://” in the configs as my Home page?
And that I did. Now I’m a safe, happy Gmail user. No extensions, no glitchy Greasemonkey scripts. Just the ululating obvious.
October 10, 2008 at 11:11 am
There is also an option in Gmail that allows you to set the https as default: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74765
Go figure why Gmail hasn’t set this as default for all users. Anyone wants to use a less secure system when given the option? ;)